Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-08-27
THE ACCOUNTS AGREE.
No Discrepancies Between the Book,
at the Treasury and those Of the
Water Office.

AS stated In THE STAR the District Commits
soners sent to the First Controller and First Audi
tor OF the treasury, on the Goth inst, statement
prepared by the District Auditor Of receipts and
disbursements Of the water fund from July l, 1878
to June 80 1887, inclusive, with a request that
those omc1als have the figures compared with the
RECORDS OF their offices and make a certificate Of
inc result OF the comparison. The statement sent
Dy the commissioners showed that the total
amount collected and deposited in the United
states treasury to the credit OF the water fund
during the period named was 8, ,2SO, 55O.s4 The
amount advanced to the Commissioners during
sae same ne , pe11od was amount ad,
of sinking fund $4S3 693 35 leaving balance SUBJ
1ect to requsition OF SAL 1928 The receipts and
the time. that the present form OF gov
ernment mas been In existence, are gwen
IN detail lor each year and under various head
!ngs. Inc receipts are analyZed as follows:
Balance on hand July 1, 1878, s16 500 49, for main
to government % Printing ONCE, s., $50; from water
rents $9s7. .4s2. .3o; Waterman tax, $221, ,O9542;
taps, s26672 permits sea, ,94164; total 81, 2SO,-
5o0S4 The expenditures are analyzed as follows:
LABOR ana repairs, s546 511 ~; salaries water de-
07099; water rents refunded $35, ,359.49; erection
OF stand-pipe, 3d., ,21326: water main to Govern
Advances not used but repaid into the Treasury,
$19,37O.1 16; balance subject to check Of the Com
msseners mi $40 eS $40 469 49, making total Of s55
ers Ihe advances to the United States Treasurer
1or interest and sinking-run was $4S3 69335.
THEIR ACCOUNTS AGREE.
In reply to the statement sent to the Treasury
the commissioners have received the following
letter from the First Auditor:
In compliance with your request of the Goth in
stant, have the honor to say that the statement
OF receipts and disbursements on account OF the
water department, District OF Columbia, from
July, 1873, to June 30, 1887, accompanying your
letter, has been compared with the records OF this
department, and 1t Is found that the amount
stated 10 nave been collected, $1,2SO, 550.S4 has
been covered into the United States Treasury by
revenue covering warrants to the credit of the
water fund, District OF Columbia.
Ihe amounts advanced to the several Boards of
commissioners, $755, ,42l26, and to the Treasurer
OF the United States. S4S3, 693. .35 were properly
secured by their official bonds
The expenditures by the Commissioners for the
wafer department proper, $725, ,5S1.61, and be-
l1eved to be correctly stated and only differ from
the records OF the Department on account OF
checks drawn, but not yet credited in the ac-
counts by the Commissioners and items sus-
pended or d1Sallowed for explanation in the set
tiemenJ OF the accounts by the accounting OIL
GERS.
The expenditures by the United States Treas
and Increasing the water supply Of Washington,
The First Controller replied to the Commis-
SiOnerS as follows:
questing verifcation by this once OF the state
ment submitted by you OF the deposits, advances
ana disbursements on account Of the water fund,
Dlstr1ct or Columbia, from July l, 1873, to June
80, 1887, inclusive, find that your statement OF
deposits and advances agrees with the records OF
this Office and that your statement Of expendi-
lures agrees In like manner, except to the extent
OF d1SallOWanceS and suspensions heretofore
MADE by this of1ce, and outstanding checks for
which you have not as yet claimed credit in your
accounts